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Community In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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The Giver by Lois Lowry The world that the book takes place in consists of several communities. Each community is governed by the Elder. The Elder are like the mayors of the city. Almost everything in this world is totally controlled. For instance, people do not get to choose what job they want to have. They are given their job at the “Ceremony of the Twelves” (their age is not said as “I am twelve”, but as “I am a Twelve”). Another thing that shows that their world is controlled is that even the weather is controlled somehow. The people in this world do not see color. They don't know music. They do not know about death either. Their word for it is “release”. They are told that the people that are release go to a different community. People believe they then spend their lives in that community. The people do not have intense feelings either. When in they book they say that they are angry, for instance, they are not really angry, merely annoyed. Everybody seems happy. They also spend a lot of time sharing their feelings within the family group, and trying to make each other feel better. One of the games …show more content…

Jonas then finds out about war, colors, music, snow, sunshine and about pain and joy and all kinds of other intense emotions. While this information get transferred to him, he becomes confused and start feeling ambivalent. On the one hand he feels people are deprived of something, on the other hand he feels that maybe life will become very complicated if everyone had all these experiences and feelings. In the end he decides that he can no longer live in these communities. With the help of the Giver he runs away. By running away he will help his people because the memories will leave him and will return to the people. This is the only way in which the people will realize that there is more to

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